"costly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

costly adjetivo

costly + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 119
costly mistake • costly war • costly battle • costly program • costly process • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 28
1. costly war = kosztowna wojna costly war
2. costly battle = kosztowna bitwa costly battle
3. costly effort = kosztowny wysiłek costly effort
  • The sharp drop continued today, despite costly efforts by Japan to stabilize the yen.
  • Researchers here are entering the home stretch in what is probably the world's most costly and ambitious effort to develop a dictionary.
  • But for that to happen, some creditors would have to mount a costly legal effort.
  • Setting up global networks requires immense, costly and lengthy efforts lasting for decades.
  • Many were substantial and costly efforts in the areas of education and health-care reform.
  • Wall Street was generally relieved at the news because it viewed the chances of success for the costly effort as a long shot.
  • But most couples can't acquire these skills without a sustained and costly effort.
  • Until recently, these intensive and costly efforts were considered relatively successful, saving thousands of birds from certain death.
  • Tension racked him, and the smile was a costly effort of will.
  • But we should think long and hard before embarking on any massive and costly national effort to provide public day care.
4. costly campaign = kosztowna kampania costly campaign
5. costly change = kosztowna zmiana costly change
6. costly fight = kosztowna walka costly fight
7. costly damage = kosztowne uszkodzenie costly damage
8. costly action = kosztowne działanie costly action
9. costly illness = kosztowna choroba costly illness
10. costly struggle = kosztowna walka costly struggle
11. costly conflict = kosztowny konflikt costly conflict
12. costly expedition = kosztowna wyprawa costly expedition
(10) disaster, problem, distraction
Kolokacji: 3
(13) delay, disruption
Kolokacji: 2
(14) treatment, drug, intervention
Kolokacji: 3
(16) penalty, incentive, benefit
Kolokacji: 3
(17) gift, acquisition, subsidy
Kolokacji: 3
(19) measure, step, weapon
Kolokacji: 3
(20) hurricane, tornado
Kolokacji: 2
(21) strike, assault, storm
Kolokacji: 3
(22) solution, method
Kolokacji: 2
(23) trial, experiment
Kolokacji: 2
(24) affair, race
Kolokacji: 2
(26) bureaucracy, machine
Kolokacji: 2
(27) dispute, jewel, gem
Kolokacji: 3
(28) import, consequence
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + costly
Kolokacji: 4
prove costly • become costly • grow costly • consider costly
adverbio + costly
Kolokacji: 19
most costly • extremely costly • potentially costly • far more costly • increasingly costly • ...
costly + preposición
Kolokacji: 3
costly for • costly to • costly in

Click on the heading to expand the collocation groups, collocations and sample sentences.